NEWS: cite --start-pos

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 0b867758d711971d1ee736e6f82b5f9b7f0d7a29..11f2c4042572c6d31f7c2d5320c213cb7206c658 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
 (this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
 @end ignore
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A
-copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
-Documentation License''.
+Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
+Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
+``GNU Free Documentation License''.
 @c man end
 @end copying
 
@@ -701,6 +701,22 @@ Another instance where you'll get a garbled file if you try to use
 Note that @samp{-c} only works with @sc{ftp} servers and with @sc{http}
 servers that support the @code{Range} header.
 
+@cindex offset
+@cindex continue retrieval
+@cindex incomplete downloads
+@cindex resume download
+@cindex start position
+@item --start-pos=@var{OFFSET}
+Start downloading at zero-based position @var{OFFSET}.  Offset may be expressed
+in bytes, kilobytes with the `k' suffix, or megabytes with the `m' suffix, etc.
+
+@samp{--start-pos} has higher precedence over @samp{--continue}.  When
+@samp{--start-pos} and @samp{--continue} are both specified, wget will emit a
+warning then proceed as if @samp{--continue} was absent.
+
+Server support for continued download is required, otherwise @samp{--start-pos}
+cannot help.  See @samp{-c} for details.
+
 @cindex progress indicator
 @cindex dot style
 @item --progress=@var{type}
@@ -2071,6 +2087,8 @@ accept or reject (@pxref{Types of Files}). Note that if
 any of the wildcard characters, @samp{*}, @samp{?}, @samp{[} or
 @samp{]}, appear in an element of @var{acclist} or @var{rejlist},
 it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix.
+In this case, you have to enclose the pattern into quotes to prevent
+your shell from expanding it, like in @samp{-A "*.mp3"} or @samp{-A '*.mp3'}.
 
 @item --accept-regex @var{urlregex}
 @itemx --reject-regex @var{urlregex}
@@ -2128,8 +2146,10 @@ dedicated @samp{--page-requisites} option.
 Ignore case when matching files and directories.  This influences the
 behavior of -R, -A, -I, and -X options, as well as globbing
 implemented when downloading from FTP sites.  For example, with this
-option, @samp{-A *.txt} will match @samp{file1.txt}, but also
+option, @samp{-A "*.txt"} will match @samp{file1.txt}, but also
 @samp{file2.TXT}, @samp{file3.TxT}, and so on.
+The quotes in the example are to prevent the shell from expanding the
+pattern.
 
 @item -H
 @itemx --span-hosts
@@ -4386,7 +4406,7 @@ subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
 @appendix Copying this manual
   
 @menu
-* GNU Free Documentation License::  Licnse for copying this manual.
+* GNU Free Documentation License::  License for copying this manual.
 @end menu
 
 @node GNU Free Documentation License,  , Copying this manual, Copying this manual